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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Small aircraft crashes into NYC skyscraper; Update: Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle piloted the plane? — Right off the East River, on 72nd Street. It looks like an apartment building; the fire is small, perhaps confined to one apartment unit thus far. Fox and CNN are carrying it live.
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CNN:
Aircraft crashes into Manhattan high-rise — NEW YORK (CNN) — A small airplane crashed into a 50-story residential building on Manhattan's East Side on Wednesday, killing at least one person, the New York City Fire Department said. — Flames were shooting out from several windows midway …
New York Times:
Small Aircraft Hits Building in Manhattan — An aircraft crashed into a residential high-rise building on New York City's Upper East Side this afternoon, igniting several apartments before pieces of the aircraft crashed to the ground, the police and witnesses said.
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Coleen Long / Associated Press:
Aircraft Hits Manhattan Building; 2 Dead — A small plane crashed into an Upper East Side high-rise Wednesday, shooting flames out the windows, raining debris on the sidewalks below and rattling New Yorkers' nerves exactly one month after the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
ESPN:
Lidle dies as plane crashes into Manhattan high-rise — NEW YORK — A small plane with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard crashed into a 50-story condominium tower Wednesday on Manhattan's Upper East Side, killing at least two people — including Lidle — and raining flaming debris on sidewalks, authorities said.
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MSNBC:
Two dead; no evidence of terrorism, officials say — From first impact to first responders, view images from the small plane crash in New York City. — NEW YORK - A small plane with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard crashed into a 50-story condominium tower Wednesday …
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ABC 7 Eyewitness News:
Yankees' Cory Lidle killed in UES plane crash — Major Traffic problems in the area — Eyewitness News has learned that Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle has been killed in a plane crash on the UES Wednesday. Mayor Bloomberg has confirmed that two people in all — both on board the plane — were killed.
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Fox News:
SMALL AIRCRAFT CRASHES INTO NEW YORK CITY HIGH-RISE BUILDING
SMALL AIRCRAFT CRASHES INTO NEW YORK CITY HIGH-RISE BUILDING
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Bush: Iraqis Are Willing To 'Tolerate' This 'Level Of Violence' — Today in his press conference, President Bush applauded the courage of Iraqis, stating that he is "amazed that this is a society which so wants to be free that they're willing to — you know, that there's a level of violence that they tolerate."
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NEWS.com.au:
Iraq Government says death toll report 'exaggerated' — Font size: — THE Iraqi Government described as "exaggerated" an independent US study which estimated that 655,000 Iraqis had died since the 2003 US invasion. — US President George W. Mr Bush had similarly called the report "not credible".
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Reid Got $1M in Land Sale — Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn't personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show. — In the process, Reid did not disclose to Congress …
David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Shays Hits Hard In Page Scandal — Invokes Chappaquiddick In Rebuking Farrell; Polls Show Issue Not Helping Democrats — WASHINGTON — When the congressional page scandal broke last month, Democrats across the country saw a chance to lambaste Republican leadership - including Diane Farrell …
Jimmy Carter / New York Times:
Solving the Korean Stalemate, One Step at a Time — IN 1994 the North Koreans expelled inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency and were threatening to process spent nuclear fuel into plutonium, giving them the ability to produce nuclear weapons.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Parties Trade Blame in Wake of Korea Claim
Parties Trade Blame in Wake of Korea Claim
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Associated Press:
Army plans current Iraq troop levels until 2010 — Top officer says future planning 'is not a prediction' of how war is going — WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army has plans that would keep the current level of troops in Iraq — about 15 brigades — through 2010, the top Army officer said Wednesday.
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
U.S. Says Blacks in Mississippi Suppress White Vote — The Justice Department has chosen this no-stoplight, courthouse town buried in the eastern Mississippi prairie for an unusual civil rights test: the first federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites.
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Rhonda Schwartz Reports / The Blotter:
Foley Cruising in His BMW; Another Dorm Visit in 2000 — Rhonda Schwartz Reports: — A staff supervisor at the dorm for congressional pages intervened when former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) tried to pay the teens a nighttime visit in the summer of 2000, ABC News has learned.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
FBI Agents Still Lacking Arabic Skills — Five years after Arab terrorists attacked the United States, only 33 FBI agents have even a limited proficiency in Arabic, and none of them work in the sections of the bureau that coordinate investigations of international terrorism, according to new FBI statistics.